THE Willingdon Sports
Club held their 5th annual
national-level bridge
tournament last weekend
at their well-manicured
lawn. Dipak Podar headed
the chairmanship and the
other bridge stalwarts, like
Maneck Hiranandani, Vinod
Nevatia, etc., gave a helping
hand to make this event a
great success.
When West led ♦7, ‘My
goodness, these opponents
seem friendly!’ thought
South. ♦J was played and
East won ♦K, returning ♦10.
West followed with ♦3 as
dummy’s ♦Q took the trick.
South in his glory may
have been able to make an
overtrick here, but there
was a significant risk in
trying for it.
If South had played ♦A and West would have
trumped and led a heart?
South could have won,
cashed ♣A, trumped a
club, trumped a diamond
and trumped yet another
club. Now, East could have
won spade and returned
a second round of hearts.
There would have been
four losers. A diamond, a
diamond ruff, a spade and
a club.
South’s contract was
as secure as South’s
contentment. Ten tricks
were guaranteed. All he
had to do was after second
diamond just cross ruffed
the hand and he was
through!
‘The biggest risk is not
taking any risk!’
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